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Today it means: A wound dressing consisting of a gauze soaked in a mixture of bismuth tribromophenate and petroleum jelly. Full definition →
Today it means: A wound dressing consisting of a gauze soaked in a mixture of bismuth tribromophenate and petroleum jelly. Full definition →
Genericized trademark.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.